#jill Washington

[behindthemirrorofmusic]

"He fell at my feet, with words of love ... with words of love in his dead mouth ... and the music had ceased ... He kissed the hem of my dress and did not see that I closed my eyes."

Gaston Leroux

[night-unfurls-its-splendour]

I DEMAND THE RETURN OF BIG, FRIZZY HAIR CHRISTINE

*bangs fist on table*

I demand Frizzy Brunette Representation!

I reject smooth ringlets and loose waves!

(Samantha Hill || Holly Ann Hull)

I want that shit wild! UNTAMEABLE!!

I want to see seaweed-ass lookin tendrils that you know will turn into a ball of shapeless frizz if anyone so much as approaches it with a brush.

No but seriously I am deeply grateful that Phantom was made in the 80's when volume was the look du jour, hang smoothness and sheen and wound up having such longevity in the cultural zeitgeist.

If I had gotten into phantom as a kid, I think it would have done wonders for my self-esteem, as a frizzy brunette living in the 00's (when having smooth, shiny, flowing waves was everything) to see a Top Tier Romantic Heroine, torn between two men who worship the earth she stands on, who was a curly brunette; but even more so if that Curly Brunette looked like she understood that you Can't Brush That Shit When It's Dry.

Reblog with your frizziest Christines

[wheel-of-fish]

favorite E/C almost kiss GIFs in MOTN?!!?!?! 👀👀👀 asking for a friend… 😳

Answering this two months late, but better than never? In roughly chronological order...

Jill Washington and Ethan Freeman—except what you can't glean from the gif and should definitely watch is his very audible gasp as he pulls away.

Julie Hanson and Hugh Panaro

Celia Graham and John Owen-Jones

Rebecca Pitcher and Brad Little

Jennifer Hope Wills and John Cudia

Marni Raab and Greg Mills

Tamara Kotova and Dmitri Ermak

Julia Udine and Laird Mackintosh

Emilie Kouatchou and Jeremy Stolle

And this isn't so much one of my favorites as one I just happen to find particularly funny:

Kristi Holden and Anthony Crivello

[phantomchristinesuk]

Christine in the ballet: around the world

1- Sarah Brightman - 1986

2- Jill Washington - 1989

3 & 4- Gina Beck - 2008 & 2010

5- Emmi Christensson - 2016

7- Julia Udine - 2013

Years are from the brochures they first appeared in (approximately)

Pictures from various souvenir brochures

[ethanfreemanappreciation]

Ethan and Jill Washington (West End)

[decaf-mother]

The autistic urge to set fire to anyone who disrupts my morning routine for it is the only thing that allows me to even remotely function and not absolutely perish into the pits of hell.

[darlingillustrations]

Fight Food Deserts with Community Gardening

“Gardening is fun!” When I talked with David Thompson, founder of Food is Free Washington, that’s why he said he started doing it. It was so much fun, in fact, that he grew too much produce in his 2,000 sf garden to use it all himself, so he started giving it away. He went on, “The thing that became more fun than growing my own food was sharing it. It’s the joy of giving stuff away.” That is the heart of the Food is Free movement: building community by sharing food independence.

Read more about the real life gardener who inspired Chapter 3 of Calico Jill and the Search for Cheese!

What Food is Free Does

Food is Free Washington is a non-profit co-run by David and Ursula Thompson in Tacoma, WA. The goal of Food is Free is to take care of our planet and take care of each other in the process by feeding people. The Thompsons seek to reduce food waste by getting food into the hands of local people who need it. They also educate people on how to grow their own food so that our community is more self reliant and less dependent on outside forces.

Food deserts stretch across many of Tacoma’s communities, but especially so in downtown Tacoma, east Tacoma and south Tacoma. A food desert is an area where local residents do not have access to fresh and healthy foods. Food is Free focuses in particular on these communities in need.

While a food bank might serve 50-100 people, Food is Free serves on average 220 people with each food giveaway. Food banks are great resources for gathering food and giving it to those in need, and they even supply Food is Free with donations through the Emergency Food Network and Feeding Feasible Feasts, but Food is Free is so much more effective in its distribution for two reasons: it goes into the heart of communities where there is food insecurity, and there is no requirement to show an ID or prove income. Anyone who shows up gets food. It’s as simple as that.

Food Is Free Sharing Tables

Ursula and David’s solution to the food deserts that stretch across Tacoma is gardening. Food is Free has planted 3,000 square feet of community garden space across the city. They started setting up tables next to these garden plots, and they would set out food for anyone to take.

They encouraged others to follow suit. At the height of the pandemic, there were 97 of these sharing tables scattered around Tacoma which became a sort of mobile food pantry. During a time of social isolation and social distancing, people formed a sense of community around sharing food surplus with each other within their local communities.

These tables were popular for a time, but there were obstacles. Even though the Thompsons would post instructions on accepted and restricted items, there wasn’t enough education about proper food storage. People started dropping off things like chicken breasts and milk, things that would spoil if left on a table.

These days, the total number of food tables is around 10-12, and they are run independently.

Food Accessibility in 2023

One thing the Thompsons are particularly excited about is the Gleaning Project, a program that is run through Harvest Pierce County in which people can sign up to have the fruit trees in their backyards harvested. Last year, 27,000 pounds of produce was harvested thanks to this program and shared with local hunger relief organizations.

Food banks are getting fewer donations than they used to. EBT benefits were cut in March. With rising food inflation, fewer people want to make donations. Add to these factors the job insecurities that we’ve all faced thanks to the pandemic, and more and more people are turning to feeding themselves with their own gardens.

Food is Free Washington is supporting these burgeoning green thumbs with seeds, plant starters and resources. Ursula explained, “You can grow an extra row. You can grow an extra plant. We just want people to do it with us. All of us gardeners together, we can help feed our community.”

Food Is Free Drop Offs

If you live in Tacoma, you can pick up food on Tuesdays in the extra parking lot across from (west of) Hope Point (formerly Calvary Baptist) Church. Address: 6511 South C Street. Follow @tacomaurbanfarmer on instagram to stay abreast what is available from week to week.

Resources:

Food is Free Washington: https://foodisfreewashington.org/ Emergency Food Network: https://www.efoodnet.org/ Feeding Feasible Feasts: https://feedingfeasiblefeastsllc.org/ Harvest Pierce County: https://piercecd.org/190/Urban-Agriculture and the Gleaning Project (where you can register your fruit trees!): https://piercecountygleaningproject.org/

Calico Jill and the Community Garden

You can read Calico Jill's story on tumblr at the following links. (The Community Garden is Chapter 3):

Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 3 | Patreon

The artwork is this post is a painting of mine titled Put A Little Spring In Your Step. It is Watercolor and Ink on 8×10 inch hot press watercolor paper.

[chriscdcase95]

"Screaming Until Dawn" chapters one and two are up.

Title says it all, but for the long version, the first two chapters of my Scream/Until Dawn crossover are finally up.

Link to chapter one and chapter two

Summary: "Spin-off and midquel to Unlife is Strange; and part of The Fog of Worlds Saga

In 2011, Kirby Reed pulled through a with death. and dreamt she was a girl named "Sam". In 2015, Samantha Giddings pulled through a brush with death, and dreamt she was a girl named "Kirby".

In 2016, both Kirby and Samantha have put those "dreams" behind them, and with the radical changes in their lives, tried to focus on their college career. But when an unfamiliar voice calls Sam "Kirby", and Kirby "Sam" both girls set out on a mission to get to the bottom of these dreams.

A mission that causes the lives of Kirby, Sam and their places in their world to blur, as something from beyond calls to them."

Ships include: Sam x Jessica x Emily - as per Unlife is Strange, they have a "Friends With Benefits/Open relationship, functioning the main pairing here. Some LIS characters will be featured, mostly as supporting or background characters, so this story also features Pricefield and Chasemarsh, even if it's not prominent.

Kirby isn't really paired with anyone here - the only character I serious ship Kirby with is with Sam Carpenter (which is probably gonna stump me when I write Kirby's interactions with Sam Giddings). I imagine Kirby's "love life" as mostly consisting of "no strings attached" flings, or dates that fizzle out before of the night.

Content Warning: Canon typical violence and horror elements; This story also nudity, eventual smut down the line. Not sure if it'll go into PWP territory. This story will also feature supernatural elements, but I'll try not to go overboard with it.

For more of what to expect, here's the initial preview, but to give a quick rundown...

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I plan on making this a shorter story - about five or seven chapters max - but it's something I've been cooking up for over a year. While I plan on wrapping up Mission To Silas before the year is over, I thought I'd get to work on this "side story" as well.

The original idea started out as "What if Kirby Reed/Sam Giddings experienced eachothers lives through dreams, and what if those dreams pulled them together ?" The idea then grew from there.

As said this is a spin of Unlife is Strange - being a midquel set between the present day (2020) storyline, and Rachel's flashback arc in LA/Seattle (2014/2015). Set in 2016, we focus on Sam attempting to take a sabbatical from the FBC following the LA/Seattle case. (To see that case, and Sam and Emily's involvement, read Unlife's chapters: "9 Crimes" and "Rachel & Steph").

Meanwhile, we follow Kirby years after Scream 4 when she is preparing to enroll to the FBI as the sole survivor of her friend group. While Kirby attempts to isolate herself following her survival, Sam has become more lively and outgoing. Despite the different lives, they are pulled down the same road as a result of someone or something from each other's lives calling to them.

I had to split the initial first chapter into two, because it had a whole lot going on at once; especially for something that would have been nearly two hours long. But I found the first half should be enough to establish things so far.

Because of this split, the first chapter is an introduction of Sam, Kirby and their connection, while chapter two the actual inciting incident; when something from another side calls to them, and Sam and Kirby's lives begin to blend together.

In the meantime, I'm gonna be juggling this story with Unlife is Strange and Mission to Silas, so chapter three may take a while. On a good run, it normally takes me a few weeks to a month to get a chapter ready in any of my stories, and I REALLY want to finish Mission by the end of the year.

[cinemafromcinema]

“…It tastes and smells of a revolution, it’s grassroots resistance, it’s a globalize intifada…”

[spurgie-cousin]

I have the teeniest bit of faith that Phil still has a shot if he can stay away from Jill. During this time that he’s been home, when the camera hasn’t been directly focused on him, he’s been making the faces of someone that would rather be getting a root canal than be where they are in the moment (most notably when the family was opening christmas presents and when David’s mom took the kids to a buffet as their christmas gift). Maybe he’s just got RBF (I do too) but with how long he’s been gone from the house, I feel like there’s a chance that the family facade has shifted for him just the slightest. Has he been away from them longer than Tim was?

Well I definitely hope that's true. Idk I just keep my expectations for the Rodrigues kids low lol so then I can be pleasantly surprised if they do anything..... not Rodrigues-y.

I think Tim was officially in school from 2018-2020, even though he moved schools during that time and sometimes says he's still studying aviation. iirc Phillip started his first year of Bible college a little over a year ago, and then also switched schools and is somewhere new as of last semester. So Tim is the Rodrigues kids who has spent the most unmarried time away from his family.

[contemplatingoutlander]

Is there really any contest between how Jill Biden and Melania Trump chose to decorate the White House for Christmas?

Although I guess you could say that those bloody red trees of Melania’s were a fitting symbol of the way the Trump administration sucked the lifeblood out of our democratic institutions. 🧛🏻‍♂️🎄

Yes, Jill Biden decorated the White House in a more traditional way. But after the Trump administration, I think we needed a return to “traditional�� and “normal.”

Below are some excerpts from The Washington Post article:

Everyone is familiar with those shiny glass mirror ball ornaments you can find at any big-box store, but this year, first lady Jill Biden hung actual mirrors on the trees of the White House’s Grand Foyer. Circular mirrors. Square mirrors. Lean in, and your face will appear, clear as day.

“That’s very purposeful, very intentional,” said Biden’s communications director, Elizabeth Alexander. “It’s important for the first lady that people see themselves in the decor.”

In other words, the People’s House will be filled with reflections of the 50,000 visitors expected to come through the doors in the next four weeks — some for tours, others to attend the 20-plus planned holiday receptions, ramping up for the first time since the pandemic. The words “We the People” — the first lady’s theme this year — hang over the entrance to the East Wing, and a copy of the Declaration of Independence, printed in 1845, is on display in the library.

I also appreciate that there were models of the First Cat Willow 🐈 and the First Dog Commander. 🐕

Below is a video of all the decorations. (Use this LINK if the video doesn’t play.)

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Ethan Freeman and Jill Washington, "Stranger Than You Dreamt It": Part II

[phantomato13]

This was so fun and I'm happy I was able to watch the whole stream!! :)

Saturday, Sept. 30, 2023 • 9 p.m. EST: Ethan Freeman, Jill Washington & Simon Bowman (London 1995)

It has been FAR too long since I streamed our favorite sad beetle-man—long enough that I suspect there's a decent crop of phans who haven't seen him yet, and if that's you, I really hope you'll join us because there's no one quite like Ethan. He’s probably the most Leroux of the ALW phantoms: creepy, emotional, and very physical, with lots of hunching and scuttling, yet still incredibly sympathetic and with a fantastic final lair kiss. 

As always, stream will be on cy.tube and shy anons are welcome. For more info, please see the Saturday Streams FAQ! Link and password will be posted here at 8:45.

[grungeisn0tdead]

My playlists:

[agentfascinateur]

45 Firsthand Gaza Medical Witnesses write the White House

Stop the war crimes. Stop the carnage.

[decaf-mother]

My coffee mug is a lie